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A 1V 10b 30MS/s CMOS ADC Using a Switched-RC Technique

스위치-RC 기법을 이용한 1V 10비트 30MS/s CMOS ADC

  • Ahn, Gil-Cho (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University))
  • Published : 2009.08.25
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Abstract

A 10b 30MS/s pipelined ADC operating under 1V power supply is presented. It utilizes a switched-RC based input sampling circuit and a resistive loop to reset the feedback capacitor in the multiplying digital-to-analog converter (MDAC) for the low-voltage operation. Cascaded switched-RC branches are used to achieve accurate grain of the MDAC for the first stage and separate switched-RC circuits are used in the sub-ADC to suppress the switching noise coupling to the MDAC input The measured differential and integral non-linearities of the prototype ADC fabricated in a 0.13${\mu}m$, CMOS process are less than 0.54LSB and 1.75LSB, respectively. The prototype ADC achieves 54.1dB SNDR and 70.4dB SFDR with 1V supply and 30MHz sampling frequency while consuming 17mW power.

본 논문에서는 1V 이하의 낮은 전원 전압에서 동작 가능한 10비트 30MS/s 파이프라인 ADC를 제안한다. 제안된 multiplying digital-to-analog converter (MDAC)의 저전압 동작을 위해 스위치-RC 기반의 입력 신호 샘플링 회로와 저항 루프를 이용한 피드백 커패시터 리셋 기법을 제안하였다. 첫 단 MDAC의 정확한 신호 이득을 위해 cascaded 스위치-RC 회로를 사용하였으며, sub-ADC의 비교기에도 독립적인 스위치 RC 샘플링 회로를 적용하여 MDAC 입력단으로 전달되는 스위칭 잡음을 최소화 하였다. 제안된 ADC는 0.13${\mu}m$ CMOS 공정으로 제작되었으며, 측정된 최대 DNL 및 INL은 각각 0.54LSB 및 1.75LSB 수준을 보인다. 또한 1V의 전원 전압과 30MS/s의 동작 속도에서 최대 SNDR 및 SFDR이 각각 54.1dB 70.4dB이고, 17mW의 전력을 소모하였다.

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